Designcraft

The Eames Sofa Compact, which looks nothing like a traditional sofa with heavy upholstery, is crisp and light in scale.

• Seat & back: Urethane foam supported by fabric-reinforced rubber webbing
• Frame: Black enamel
• Steel legs chrome plated
• Stainless glides with rubber bases

And while it’s perfect for smaller rooms and smaller spaces, where a traditional sofa would look bulky and out of place, it also fits beautifully into larger rooms in which an airy, modern look is desired.

The two foam pads that constitute the sofa's back feature a reinforcing cord welting detail. Urethane foam seat cushions are supported by fabric-reinforced rubber webbing on a steel and wire-spring armature. The steel frame is black enamel, and the tubular steel legs are chrome plated. Stainless steel glides have rubber bases.

Why “compact” for a sofa that is 1,830mm wide and seats three? The clean profile of the Eames Sofa Compact is perfectly scaled for spaces that are too small for a traditional sofa – in executive suites, lounges and homes. But you lose none of the comfort that you would expect from a full-size sofa. Style and seating are elegantly combined in a sleek, slender, minimalist piece of classic mid-century furniture.

The Eames Sofa Compact started out as a built-in sofa in the Pacific Palisades home that Charles and Ray Eames designed for themselves in the 1940s. They liked the sofa so much that they developed a free-standing version – first in wire and then the current model, which has been in continuous production since 1954.